Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

Today Ken welcomes musician Brenda Bennett to the show. Ken and Brenda discuss Ken's house as a museum, New England, growing up with Country Music in the family, waltzing into a contract with CBS records, seeing the Beatles for the first time on the Jack Parr show, how television can be more powerful than just hearing something, American Bandstand, loving songs but not artists, trying to get facetime with the family guitar, learning songwriting without learning music, Ozzie and Harriet, loving Ricky Nelson, Apollonia 6, Purple Rain, the abandoned Apollonia 6 mini-movie, Buck Henry, Sex Shooter, seeing live bands in Providence, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, living in London in the late 80s, recording in the Dave Clark Five studios, The Boston Tea Party, the Velvet Underground, the night James Brown saved Boston, seeing George Harrison, Paul McCartney asking your opinion on scents, absorbing accents, backpacking through Europe, Ken Lyon & The Tombstone Blues Band, Electric Lady Studios, Mott the

In this special mini-episode Ken welcomes actress, singer, author Adrienne Barbeau to the show. Ken and Adrienne discuss growing up without television, Pippin, musical theater, watching Westerns on the farm, "It Could Be You", the old country, not going to the movies until college, hour long dramas, Maude, Norman Lear, acting on the stage, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Quincy M.E., TV Movies, John Carpenter, making your name on the talk shows, Merv, Mike Douglas, The Gong Show, $20,000 Pyramid, being a TV actor or a movie actor, Swamp Thing, The Fog, All in the Family, Dick Cavett, the golden age of HBO and home video, never going home again, Creepshow, being called Billy, casting against type, The George Carlin Show, being Catwoman in Batman the Animated Series, Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, Ultraman: Towards the Future, forgetting Love Boat the Next Wave, The New Twilight Zone, and catching up on your shows during shows thanks to Netflix.

May 30 - June 5, 1992 Today Ken welcomes writer and monologist David Mogolov. Ken and David discuss the Boston suburbs, having a TV in your room, the midwest vs. NJ, AT&T, Central Time, SNL, Who's the Boss, The connection between Baywatch and Highway to Heaven, being a part of a cult, the Best Show, Tweeting the Macy's Parade, 120 Minutes, Thurston Moore vs. Beck, college radio, the non-COPS Inner Circle, Billy Connolly, Perfect Strangers, the superiority of Predator 2, evil Jamaicans, loving live ROC, Anthrax on Married...with Children, Night Court, Herman's Head, the golden age of Fox, Get a Life, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Real Genius, HBO movies, Overboard, Midnight Madness, Braingames, HBO's Encyclopedia, Kansas City, Tommy Page's run on Full House, Home Improvement's Christmas in July, Eddie Albert's Hippie Nephew, tornado preparedness, The USA Music Challenge, Unsolved Mysteries, "Bait & Switch" on Growing Pains, Jake and the Fatman, Twins, Cosby's showcase for Doug E. Doug, The Simpsons, Desmond

In this very special 2 year Anniversary special Ken treats the listeners to a LOST episode of the show. This was recorded in the first 30 days of the show back in 2014. Sean Sullivan expressed discontent with it so it sat in the vaults. October 17-23, 1998 Ken and Sean discuss Ken's home and discussing Ken's home, the last year of being single, XTREME Bo Derek, Hawaii, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung in Martial Law, HBO Undercover Documentaries, Unsolved Mysteries, Smart Guy, The Army Show, Silk Stalkings, The New Adams Family, the Family Channel, Halloweentown, Everybody Loves Raymond, the wonders of Ray Romano, Parenthood, The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeifer, Clerks The Animated Series, The "Forbidden Haircut" on Home Improvement, Jesse, the sitcom cliche if things being stuck in people's noses, Larry Sanders, Daphne Zuniga, Rent, Spin City, Jack, Diane Lane: The World's Most Beautiful Woman, Dawson's Creek, Kevin Williams, Ken's father's cruel insults to children, Two Guys A Girl and a Pizza Place, Friends, changi

Week of April 2-8, 1994 Today Ken welcomes comedian and host of "You're The Expert" Chris Duffy to the show. Ken and Chris discuss Loni Anderson, the long long process of Chris's appearance on the show, growing up in Manhattan, Petey's winking, living in You've Got Mail, how comedy and horror are the same, secret SNL writers, reading over TV, rewatching the Simpsons in your head, April Fools Day pranks, snapping turtles, Ken's high school stalker, Jeopardy, COPS, getting mugged, The Fugitive, foreseeing whack attacks, The Mommies, offended by Lynne Koplitz, kids at stand up comedy shows, Exchange Students, SNICK, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Scholastic Scary, Whalbergs in the shower, growing up Jewish and Christian, Ghost Writer, kissing your television, sleeping in Christian Slater's room, thin walls make poor privacy, Family Matters, white privilege time machines, Linda Ellerbee as the world's greatest journalist, Wild America vs. Nature, MST3K, Dave's World, Fraiser, recommending Hal Hartley, The Purple Ga

June 9 -15, 1979 Today Ken welcomes comedian, actress and fellow New Englander Jan Davidson to the show. Ken and Jan discuss Los Angeles' lack of seasons, school year clocks, school shopping, LL Bean, Pretty Plus at Sears', store brands, Everett, loving gentrification, Malden Catholic, hoity toity Melrose, John Pinette, Donna Peskow, Angie, TV theme songs as pop music, Finders of Lost Loves, Solid Gold, Out of This World, being adopted, Jordan Marsh, never controlling the remote control, CHiPs, stoop sitting, Ken's Jimmy Neutron vibe, Mother/Daughter Beauty Pageant, Love Boat, virginity and the bible, having the same dad, Fantasy Island, stuck on Jan Brady, is Mr. Roarke Satan or God?, Church on 19, The Debolt's 19 Kids, Diff'rent Strokes, Superman The Musical, Carrie, telling Barbara Streisand she'd be a star after she's a star, Little House on the Prairie, White Shadow, blind deaf and dedicated, Newhart, putting words to instrumentals, Gary Marshall's universe, Santa Monica's Three's Company Sleaze, unmarri

March 15-21, 1980 Today Ken welcomes writer, broadcaster, all around personality Dan Savage to the show. Ken and Dan discuss lack of choices, Zoom Pride, Bonnie Hunt Chicago vs. Cabrini Green Chicago, being a middle child, special events pre-empting TV, Alienated suburban teams, Baretta, the Reagan era, the 70s grit vs. the 80s aspirational media, how the American Dream is the American Scam, the lack of post-Roseanne Blue Collar sitcoms, family love through ballbusting, hot wives with fat guys, hitting the age as an actress when you have to be a non-sexual D.A., growing into Love Boat, Archie's Place, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore Spin-Offs, Phyllis, Rhoda, Lou Grant, why Marty Tyler Moore is a gay man, Family, Leif Garrett, the importance of re-runs, Lucy, saving a marriage with infidelity, Billy Crystal on SOAP, fixing gay men, Love Sydney, shock that Tony Randall isn't gay, not knowing Liberace is gay, asking for tickets to A Chorus Line, Paul Lynde and his filthy gay jokes, CHpS, crushing on Erik Estrada, under

February 2-8, 1991 In this episode Ken welcomes comedian, musician and man of New Hampshire Nick Lavallee to the show. Ken and Nick discuss cat based allergies, Bob Saget, SNL, MC Hammer's connection to Julia Roberts, Sweeps Week, banning Pumps N a Bump, British Knights, confusing Michael Jackson with Magic Johnson, New Hampshire Ghetto Boys, Howard Stern, Uncle Buck vs. Amen, Chubby Checker's Superbowl Conspiracy, Ken's hatred of Puff the Magic Dragon, Primetime 3.2.1 Contact, being attracted to the deaf girl, Sega Genesis, BJ's Wholesale Club, Nintendo, Patrick Swayze, loving Sally Struthers, Golden Girls lulling you to sleep, Unsolved Mysteries, The wonder of the PXL 2000, In Living Color, Get a Life, AFV vs. In Living Color, Howie Mandell in Good Grief, Fresh Prince, Voices that Care, Make Out Parties, Ireland's pub based tongue games, Co-Ed Pillow Fight Leagues, Baby Jessica, staying up all night because you watched Murphy Brown, falling asleep to Dragnet, "shifting", Rescue 911, Davis Rules, Roseanne, E

By popular demand Ken welcomes returning guest, comedian and Wrestling superfan/expert Will Smalley back to the show for a very special Wrestling Special. Ken and Will discuss the r-word, older brothers introducing you to the world of Wrestling, Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon's reinvention, regional Wrestling organizations, Rock N Wrestlin', carnies, territories, Wrestling on TV, Ted Turner, WCW, MTV, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Wrestling Schools, UFC, under the counter Wrestling magazines, Lady Wrestlers, Animotion's "Obesssion", Saturday Night's Main Event, Brother Love, American Gladiators, USA Network, TBS, TNT, Monday Night Wrestling, Midget Wrestling, KAFABE, backyard wrestling, jerk off plaza, Cable Access, Tony Rumble, "snapping your carrot", vigilante justice, Lucha Libre, soap opera storylines, the "attitude era", Japanese extreme wrestling, sneaking into the Undertaker's hotel room, real fighting techniques, G.L.O.W., WWE re-writing history, tape traders, Faces of Death, low culture, Donald Trump, Ravishing Rick

March 4-10, 1995 Today Ken welcomes writer, cartoonist and graphic novel creator Liz Prince to the show. Ken and Liz discuss Ken's strange home, hoarding comic books, autobiographical comic books, Disney's TV Animation, wanting to be a cartoon character, Adventure Time, punk rock, 90s zine culture, New Mexico, discovering punk via Green Day on MTV, only having one cool record store, missing cartoon sex humor, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Thundar The Barbarian, post-nuke kids shows, THreads, The Day After, When the Wind Blows, Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, the holocaust at the end of the original Transformers movie, Archie, Ariel Schrag, Nicktoons, faceless cartoons, Comic Book Confidential, Duck Tales, Robin Hood, Tom & Jerry, the television being quarantined into your parents' room, pitching TV shows, the unique format of comics books, Demolition Man, Taco Bell, inherent anti-military anti-group anti-authority brain wiring, Cops, John Tesh, The Simpsons, The Critic, The Ghostbusters movie being based on th

Today Ken welcomes singer/songwriter/author/all around talent Marshall Crenshaw to the show. Ken and Marshall discuss how the third time is the charm, seaside music venues, Club Passim, Marshall's book "Hollywood Rock", The MTV age, the hub of hitchiking, That Thing You Do, La Bamba, Buddy Holly, the early 60s, The Adventures of Pete & Pete reunion, Beatlemania, SCTV, being surprised by Robert Gordon doing your song on your favorite show, The Merv Griffin Show, Wayland Flowers and Madame, The David Letterman Show, Detroit Rock and Soul, The MC5, The Stooges, Jackie WIlson, Jack Scott, scored due to failure, growing up in the anonymous suburbs, watching shocking amounts of television, getting a classic cinema education via TV, showing your children Citizen Kane, realizing that the Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special is 30 Years old, Gilligan's Island vs. The Monkees, Jack Parr, Anglophilia, Steptoe & Son, Malcolm Muggeridge, The Beverly Hillbillies, the variety of true classic top 40, Solid Gold, no

October 12-18, 1991 On today's show Ken welcomes writer, Thrilling Adventure Hour head honcho and host of the Nerdist Writer's Panel Ben Blacker to the show. Ken and Ben discuss growing up in the Boston area, Hal Hartley TV, the early 90s, CBS Monday Night, hereditary sci-fi fandom, American Gothic, Dark Shadows, Spenser for Hire, James at 15, Creature Double Feature, horror as metaphor, the humorless grim 21st Century, Supernatural, American Horror Story, Golden Girls and the Torkelsons, when Saturday Night isn't funny, Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, totally retooling shows, Bob, Family Ties, why it's not worth it to make a show for everybody anymore, taping Young Riders, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Sightings, the troubles of serialization, Young Guns II, Westerns turning into TV Cop Shows, The Comish, Life Goes On, low concept TV, blue collar TV, AIDS, Eerie Indiana, Parker Lewis, James Garner, evil John Stamos, Full House, Herman's Head, The early days of Fox, Women in Prison, W

In today's special BONUS! episode to start 2016 right, Ken welcomes actress, writer, musician and mom Jenna Von Oy to the show. Ken and Jenna discuss Jenna's status as a frequent point of discussion on the show, Tales from the Darkside, Christmas Episodes, E.G. Marshall, being an old Soul, growing up in CT, the way New York City used to be, how an illustration of the flexibility of Jordace jeans leads to a career in acting, being the anomaly in your family. letting your kids act, the changing face of a television year, The Gritter, Monsters, "Glim-Glim" RIP, having a Goldfish memory of your own work, The West Wing, re-visiting your past via DVD, Jenna's status as the hardest working person in showbiz, Don Reo, working on Lenny and Blossom at the same time, being the one true Six, the foolproof disguise if crimped hair, places your bets on Lenny Clarke, discovering the great untapped resource of teenage girls, normal kids, Warren Littlefield's daughter single-handedly saving Blossom, The John Larroquette Show,

September 13-19, 1997 FALL PREVIEW Today Ken welcomes comedian Guitler Raphael to the show. Ken and Guitler discuss the official Team Reid pizza, spinach, Haiti, Fall Preview, sibling bargaining, The Pretender, COPS, Maurice the Pants Man, Garth Brooks, The Real World, Xena, Miss America, Wet T-Shirts, being a bouncer, fooled by strippers, The New England Patriots, The Omega Man, the golden age of Video Stores, Malden, In the House, doing your best to identify with bad TV, the best "black" show, LL Cool J's Radio, Dateline NBC, Football vs. Wrestling, learning comedy via TV, past life regression, Malcolm and Eddie, good business ideas, teenage hangouts, B.L.L.T's, Step Dad murder, Brian De Palma, Breakin' Boobs, Cannon Films, Keeping Up Appearances, PBS, Ken's David Bowie, Toys, wall posters, Janet Jackson, Spin City, Isaac Mizrahi, Sister Sister, Jackee Harry, Smart Guy, .com bubble, cops teaching history, buying stocks, Keith Sweat, The Wayans Brothers, OJ, Steve Harvey, twins causing racism, Must See TV, L

April 30 - May 5, 1977 On today's episode Ken welcomes author, novelist, journalist, musician and all around great guy Rick Moody to the show. Ken and Rick discuss the atmosphere of cookies in Harvard Square, 60s TV, Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon's Teeth, dying of a broken heart, boarding school rules, cold turkey television, Irwin Allen, Disaster Movie fetishes, Airport 70-75, Airplane, all star casts, novelizations of the movie, JAWS, The Rock in San Andreas, man vs. nature, Steve McQueen's assessment that "they'll keep building them, and we'll keep putting those fire out", 70s Subversives, Harrison Ford fighting demons in the Possessed, burying your wife alive, Bad Ronald, Invitation to Hell, The Night Stalker, Gene Hackman, Fred Astaire, Xanadu, Linda Blair's finest work, After School specials, teenager drunks, Scott Baio is Stoned, Helen Hunt is Angel Dusted, The Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Love, cultural capital, Game of Thrones, In Search Of..., Noah's Arc, Bermuda Triangle, John Davidson, PBS, The A

September 28 - October 4, 1991 Today Ken welcomes comedian Rick Canavan to the show. Ken and Rick discuss Rick's third visit to Reid Manor, not voting, cartoons, Barbara Bush, Rodeo, The Madison Square Garden Network, Ken's real email, Wrestling House Shows, satellite feeds, Who's the Boss, TV as comfort, new sitcoms on Saturdays, Shark Tank, infomercial nostalgia, meeting Tony Little, door to door salesman, The Topsfield Fair, Cows made of butter, slapping the big old pickle, Black Adder, Women of the Night, The Best of the Worst, Ripping Yarns, special Nurses, Murder She Wrote, Eerie Indiana, blue collar sitcoms, Dream On, Stand up Heavy, Herman's Head, Red Scorpion, Rick's hatred of Action movies, Steven Segal movies being better than Wrestling, Carmen San Diego, wacky acapella, MacGuyver, very special Blossom, Saturday Night's Main Event, Living Coulor, Full House Tuesdays, Baywatch, Vanessa Angel, The Night Stalker, Real People Reunion, NIN, Superman, hating Coach, the worst Van Dyke vs. the worst Van Pa

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the NorthEast ComicCon Ken welcomes Claudia Wells (Back to the Future, Fast Times) and John Wesley Shipp (The Flash, Dawson's Creek, The Flash) to the show. First up, Ken and Claudia discuss Fast Times, modeling for the Sears Wishbook and JC Penny Catalogs, Family, growing up in San Francisco, starring in Martin Sheen's directorial debut as a fake pregnant teen, After School Specials, Off the Rack, The Brady Bunch, kissing everyone but Peter, when even Ed Asner can't get you out of a contract, Back to the Future, the divide between television stars and movie stars, Christopher Lloyd, Claudia's Scientist Father, the Back to the Future Video game, BTTF Animated Series, having Michael J. Fox in your back pocket, being shocked where you end up, owning Armani Wells Men's Clothing store for the last 25 years, the changing face of men's fashion, being recognized in civilian life, the difficulties of playing a role already played by someone else in a movie, sneaking into clandestinel

In this special Holiday Season bonus episode Ken welcomes illustrator, writer and all around talent Molly Crabapple to the show. Ken and Molly discuss the perils of mispeaking, a natural inclination to introversion, growing up in New York, sneaking into Manhattan, social awkwardness, enjoying things from afar, being a punk rock teen, Fact Sheet Five, the wonder of 90s 'zines, maximumrocknroll, teenage life hacks, anarchists, Dawson's Creek, New York girls, re-writing your teenage years via media, hate watching, social media, D.A.R.E., how scare films can actually give you ideas, MTV, Liquid Television, The Head, Aeon Flux, My So-Called Life, Sassy, Daria, trying not to discount the pain of youth, Gender roles in media, Vice TV, having not watched TV in 16 years due to an uncomfortable couch, Mark Kistler's Secret City, drawing instruction on television, watching television in foreign countries, pro-Assaad regime TV, Propaganda on TV, how the whole world doesn't actually worship American mass media, Havana, be

Today Ken welcomes writer, comedian, actor and podcaster Dana Gould to the show. Ken and Dana discuss the memories of dark failure that hang over Harvard Square, replacing Steven Wright in Stationary, Boston Radio, having a member of the cars stare you down, Dana Hersey's Movie Loft, WSBK TV 38, Creature Double Features, being a Monster Kid, The Midnight Special, Rod Serling and the Night Gallery, Feep, horror hosts, Reel Wild Cinema, cursed used cars, the perplexing Japanese Box Office, TV Guide as the 70s video store, the wonders of stumbling on things, David Chase and the Night Stalker, Vampira, The Medveds, Ed Wood, Planet of the Apes, the strangeness that is Gloucester, Jonathan Ross, Incredibly Strange Film Show, how Dana's Dad became Buffy The Vampire Slayer, how the world has changed, being best friends with Greg Nicotero, intense Tom Savini, Frank Darabont, Mob City, The Simpsons, The Ben Stiller Show, Willfred Brimley, The Mystery of Kurt Russell, Elvis Presley's Moon Landing issue, Change of Habit,

Today on the show Ken welcomes musician, partier, motivational speaker and all around personality Andrew WK. Ken and Andrew discuss Top of the Pops, Anne Arbor Michigan, tape trading, the golden age of MTV, when music became visual, Roxy Music, how the arts make room for everything, Miami Vice, the value of having to work for media, not having cable growing up, anti-television parental styles, the horrors of the adult world, cigarette ads, ambition, Star Trek, Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, 60 Minutes, The Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, The Facts of Life's "Over Our Heads Years", Pee Wee's Playhouse, the 80s retro aesthetic, Gary Panter, Memphis Designs, Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote, TV Theme Songs, Learning life lessons from Andy Rooney, why Don Knotts as Mr. Furley was terrifying, physical humor, Three's Company, Animaniacs, Sesame Street, loving Maria, why nobody likes Telly, and having to explain bongs to Grandma because of The Facts of Life.